Brook Lopez was named to the All-Star team yesterday, but last night, especially after halftime, “Nets” and “All-Star” seemed incongruous.
Lopez became the first “Brooklyn” Net selected for an All-Star game — and just the 13th in the team’s 37-season, often tortured history. Lopez was picked by commissioner David Stern to replace injured Boston guard Rajon Rondo on the Eastern Conference team.
To celebrate the selection, Lopez scored 21 points in 32 minutes, but the celebratory fervor, though, sort of got lost with everybody else. The Nets, after being tied at halftime with the defending champs, came apart in a horrific, turnover-plagued third quarter and the Heat waltzed to a 105-85 rout.
“It’s a huge honor and I can’t thank my team enough,” Lopez said. “Obviously I wouldn’t be in this situation if we weren’t successful. It’s a team game. So it’s all on them. They earned it for me.”
Lopez leads the Nets with 18.6 points a game, tops among centers in the league. He also is averaging 7.3 rebounds and 2.2 blocks for the Nets (27-19), who are tied with Indiana for the fourth-best record in the East. But they were swamped by the Heat, which dampened that All-Star glow.
“It’s an honor, but it’s not my focus right now,” Lopez said. “We were very focused on the game tonight, and that was the main concern.”
In their NBA history, the Nets have landed 13 all-stars, with three making multiple trips: Jason Kidd (five times), Buck Williams (three times) and Vince Carter (also three times).
* After not practicing Tuesday or participating in the morning shootaround because of flu-like symptoms, Deron Williams managed to fight through 34 minutes in last night’s loss.
“My energy was low,” Williams said after scoring nine points and dishing out five assists. “I had it in spurts. I’d have a spurt and then I got drained.”
Williams also committed six turnovers, on a night where the Nets had 19 as a team that turned into 25 points for the Heat.
“He’s not an excuse guy, but I’ve got to think [it bothered him],” interim coach P.J. Carlesimo said. “Maybe I stretched his minutes out too long, maybe I should have played him in shorter spurts, but he wanted to play, and at times he was playing very well.”
* Last night’s loss was the Nets’ 13th in a row against the Heat — including seven at home — dating back to the 2009-10 season.
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